Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new way to design 3D structures that deploy from a flat form with a single pull of a string. The method could help engineers rapidly assemble complex structures in ...

1 Department of Cell Therapy and Applied Genomics, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan 2 Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Suffix trees ...

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were “just a scratch,” a “minor setback,” or a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” ...

String manipulation is a core skill for every Python developer. Whether you’re working with CSV files, log entries, or text analytics, knowing how to split strings in Python makes your code cleaner ...

Laboratoire International Associé Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Unité Mixte de Recherche n7019, Université de Lorraine, 54506 ...

It’s often the case that we want to divide a string into smaller parts like words or sentences. Of course, we can split a string into individual symbols using the list constructor: >>> s = "My wombat ...

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